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The First of the Modern Ottomans blends biography with intellectual history. On the one hand, it is the story of an Ottoman life – the life of the scribe, ambassador, and prolific historian Ahmed Vâsıf (ca. 1735-1806), a man who... more
Özet Muhammed İkbâl'in düşüncesinde Tanrı ve evrene ilişkin bir açıklama yapabilmek için onun benlik felsefesini bilmek hayati önem taşır. Çünkü o, Tanrı ve evren söz konusu olduğunda tüm açıklamalarını ben felsefesi üzerinden yapar. Onun... more
Cumhuriyet devrinin en velut düşünürlerinden biri olan Hilmi Ziya Ülken'in (ö. 1974) zengin külliyatı içinde İslam düşüncesine dair çalışmaları önemli bir yekûn tutmaktadır. Türk Tefekkür Tarihi'nden (1933) İslam Felsefesi: Kaynakları ve... more
This thesis (1999) delves into Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd's hermeneutics of the Qur'an, which was, at that time, not yet systematically formulated. It tries to reconstruct his theories of text and interpretation based on his works, and gives... more
The Concept of the Perfect Man in Islamic Mysticism, Islamic Mysticism, Mysticism, Islamic Irfan, Ifran, Gnosicm, Perfect Man, Al-Insan al-Kamil, Ibn Arabi, Muyuddin, Fusus al-Hikam, Jandi, Qaysari, Khawarizmi, Imam Khomeini, Naqd... more
“Müzakere: [Fârâbî’nin Hayatıyla İlgili Erken Dönem Kaynaklar Üzerine]”, İslam Düşüncesinin Ana Merkezleri: Mâverâünnehir, ed. İlyas Çelebi, İstanbul: İSAV Yayınları, 2019, s. 474-479.
The unique copy of al-Majālis al-sab‘ bayna al-Shaykh wa al-‘Āmirī (Ragıp Paşa Library 1461, ff. 150a-162b) consists of seven sessions including forty-one questions and answers. While the name of al-‘Āmirī (d. 381/992) does not appear in... more
The edition and English translation of Ibn Sīnā’s relatively early work on the classification of sciences, i.e, Risāla fī ǧamīʽ aqsām ʽulūm al-awā’il.
İslam felsefe geleneğinin en etkili ismi olarak kabul edilen İbn Sînâ’nın (ö. 428/1037), felsefî/aklî bilimler tasnifine dair Kitâbu aksâmi’l-hikme ve tafsîlihâ’sı (literatürde yaygın olarak bilinen ismiyle Risâle fî... more
Philosophy tries to answer the questions regarding the source of being. This endeavour reached the highest point with Aristotle in ancient Greece. Our claim is that Aristotle contructs his ontologic theory as the truth by using a... more
This article explores the development of Saudi Arabia during King Fahd's era through research which highlights the challenges and reasons behind the decline in achieving five year plans. Saudi Arabia is one of those Middle Eastern... more
This paper aims to clarify the meaning of 'renovation of religious discourse' through an analysis of the concept and some related concepts in general, and more specifically by defining the disciplines of this renovation and their... more
Alija Ali Izetbegović (1925-2003) is one of the outstanding Muslim thinkers in recent history who have re-conceptualized the Islamic worldview and ethos in the context of the contemporary world on the one hand and critically reflected... more
Eine Idee kann mehr als einen einzigen Anfang haben, genau wie viele Wege zum gleichen Ziel hinführen können. Ein Ziel ist in mancher Hinsicht mehr ein dynamisches Befinden als eine konkrete statische Ziellinie. Davon leben Ideen und... more
Le discours religieux musulman est pris dans une fièvre idéologique depuis au moins deux siècles, réagissant avec une violence verbale aux évolutions sociales, ce qui atteste d'une crise culturelle profonde. La domination européenne a... more
“Jihād and the Islamic philosophers: Alfarabi as a case study”, Encounter: Documents for Muslim-Christian Understanding 354 (Rome: PISAI, May 2010).
My brief introduction to Islamic philosophy discusses this complex branch of world philosophy as a tradition in its own right not to be solely measured by the standards of Western thought. It therefore begins with two surveys (one... more
The International Research Journal of Islamic Civilization (IRJIC) is visualised as an academic and scientific publication devoted to articles and other informed studies on Islamic civilization. The comprehensive and multidisciplinary... more
Although European travelers to the Ottoman Empire often noted the inhabitants’ “fatalism,” historians have never seriously examined this intellectual phenomenon. Whether or not we can credit such sources, the testimony of seventeenth- and... more
چكيده ابن سينا در آثار مختلف خود به كتاب الحكمة المشرقية اشاره كـرده اسـت. برخـى متفكـران سلامى نيز به اين كتاب استشهاد كردهاند. وی در اين كتاب ديدگاههای خاص خود را با صراحت بيان كرده است. بنا بر روشى كه ابنسينا داشت، و برخى آثار خود را... more
VAKANÜVİS-International Journal of Historical Researches, Yıl/Vol. 6, Sayı/No. 1, Bahar/Spring2021. ISSN: 2149-9535/ 2636-7777
Türkiye'de izlenen laiklik politikasını birçok yönden tartışmak mümkündür. Ancak İslam algısı ve yaşantısı konusunda meydana gelen değişmeleri sadece laiklik politikasına b'ağlamak ya da laiklik politikalarını tüm olumsuzlukların nedeni... more
The idea of the Suspended Man in Space or Suspended man in the air is also known with titles of Flying Man or Floating Man and Into Thin Air. Avicenna introduces this idea in The Book of Healing, and Remarks and Admonitions (Pointers and... more
My review of Simon O'Meara book on the Kaaba.
Mullā Ṣadrāov ambiciozni pokušaj da definira znanje kao modalitet egzistencije omogućava mu da podvede noetiku pod ontologiju te sprječava da se njegova epistemologija stropošta na filozofiju subjektivizma. To Mullā Ṣadrā postiže čvrsto... more
Islamic and Conventional Corporate governance Convergence or divergence?
Irtifaq is means being soft, convenient, kind, helping, benefitting, etc. The word irtifaq refers to adopting convenient ways, helping devices, beneficial methods, useful technology, and good manners in one's life. Shah Wali-Allah uses it... more
اغراق نیست اگر بگوییم که در الهیّات معاصر اسلامی مسألهی شرّ چندان بحثبرانگیز نبوده است. به ندرت میتوان آثار معاصر اسلامیای یافت که به تفصیل و نوآورانه به مسألهی شرّ پرداخته باشند.